It's a continuous poker game with other beady-eyed professionals longing to bust your hand.
Millman's subject matter is her past — her memories of friends and family, material longings, professional struggles, and "those elusive happenstances that often lead to defining moments in our lives".
Millman's subject matter is her past—her memories of friends and family, material longings, professional struggles, and "those elusive happenstances that often lead to defining moments in our lives".
Many of the visitors were musicians in search of a better instrument; they ranged from teenagers trying out their first handmade violin under the nervous gaze of their parents to professionals who stole longing glances at the 18th-century treasures that high-end dealers displayed in glass cases lighted like reliquaries.
The secret romantic longings and professional disappointments of people like the Calloways, who spend summers in the Hamptons and live in a Tribeca loft (albeit a rent-stabilized one), might seem too frivolous to be placed at the foreground of a novel, let alone three.
Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.
The erstwhile MP and professional gadfly has published a blogpost decrying "privilege checking", and longing to return to a species of "reality-based" feminism where everyone would stop bothering her about class, race and money.
The convergence of family, guests, and their longings leads to a series of tiny heartbreaks and professional jealousies, though Margulies lacks Chekhov's skill for finding the volcanic in the everyday.
Your senses may be flooded with a different longing than mine, perhaps a calling to a certain career or professional trade, one that deeply fulfills you.
The card-playing scenes — many featuring real-life fixtures of the professional poker circuit — also offer some relief from the clumsy attempts by Mr. Bana and Ms. Barrymore to breath whimsy and longing into an unconvincing love story.
